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It's been a while since I've played BF4, but isn't there an option to lock the framerate at 30hz in the settings? If not, you may be able to go into Geforce Experience and set BF4 to 30hz there. As for what you said here: I think you're mistaken. I believe that the Tickrate of those servers...

Gam3r is right. The drivers will be all wrong. You'd need to reformat and reinstall. Both can be done with the Windows installation disc or usb installer. It will be pretty slow, but if you're in a bind and you need a hard drive now than make sure you back it up.

81C is a little high, but if that's only while stress testing it shouldn't be an issue.

I'm just popping in to point out that Mozilla just released a stable 64 bit version of Firefox. Maybe it's been mentioned earlier in the thread, but I just skimmed.

You won't find a graphics card that's a worthwhile improvement over the 750ti for $150. If you can, save up a bit more and buy a 960 or 380x. For $150, I'd recommend buying an SSD.

You'll get a big jump in performance in any games that were held back by your current CPU. Just make sure to get a new motherboard as well. Amd and Intels CPUs use different sockets.

Plex does support hyperthreading, so you'll see somewhere between a 15 - 40% better performance than a non-hyperthreaded chip, depending on what you're doing. Passmark scores are a good benchmark for Plex, which recommends a minimum score of 2000. The price/performance king HERE is the FX 8350...

@SBMfromLA That's true. I'm sure there must be a happy medium. Prowlcorp, does your grandfather need to install anything? If not, you may as well do what SBM suggested and just remove admin privileges from his account. Also, this is only semi-related, but I recommend installing the Remote...

This isn't the place to ask. If you want help than put a build together and we'll assess it. If you want someone to give you a list of parts from scratch than Go Here.

You can use THIS to block sites within Chrome, so you can block every download site for other browsers. You can also edit the Hosts file (Seen Here) to block URLs. Or, you can block sites in his router's settings. edit: personally, I think the router option is the most effective and least...

Yes :)

I wouldn't feel bad. At the pace CPUs are improving the 6700 is going to last you quite some time. Many people are still using i5 2500's and getting by just fine and that chip is almost *six* years old.

Plug an 8 pin from your power supply into each of those, yes.